Krakatoa

I mean, it was just total devastation.

And somebody was mentioning Krakatoa in Asia.

That happened in the 1880s.

And I believe it was 1880s.

Claude, you made it back from Nepal before the volcano erupted.

Yeah, Abby, for anyone who hasn't seen, Mount Krakatoa has been erupting pretty much steadily since the weekend and spewing out these big clouds of volcanic ash all over Jakarta and parts of South Sumatra.

So it shut down the airport for about 40 hours and left like hundreds of thousands of people trying to get all over the world stranded.

It was total chaos and I missed it by just about that much.

Now, be careful because we did have a comment that, you know, this spring, that inline ripped ground stayed wet 10 days longer.

So this is, th- so not saying this is gonna work, but boy, the growth right now really does kind of make you go, "Hmm, this is an interesting strategy or s- an interesting concept to see if it actually works." Barry saying, "Hey, Peter, it's amazing what goes through your mind, but you know, in 1991, Mount Pinatubo, the volcano erupted, and in 1992, we had no summer." Well- This summer, Krakatoa in Indonesia was putting, you know, plumes of smoke 50,000 feet into the air or something like that.

And does that mean that's going to have an impact next summer? Well, Barry, it might.

But at this point, we don't know.

We've been here at Westside Raceway.

Fabulous four days of racing and, of course, we were all due to fly out last night or this morning, except a little volcano called Krakatau decided to blow its top over the weekend.

So a bunch of us are still here, including me.

I'm here with my roomie, Matt Seccold, from RC Race Media.

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... or Krakatau.

Yeah.

Yeah, our project was trying to replicate Pinatubo by just, uh, finding cheap ways of putting sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere.

And, uh, by the way, uh, Ralph's pointed out eight Indonesian airports are presently closed due to the eruption of Anak Krakatau.

Gee, the last time something called, uh, Krakatoa blew up in, uh, Indonesia, God, we were, the entire world was plunged into a sort of mini nuclear winter for a couple of years.

And yes, as Ralph points out, all of that volcanic dust and smoke is blowing right toward the U.S., Weird, weird times indeed.

By the way, we're well past the halfway point of the program and I do love the conversations that we have here.

Yeah, nothing-

The Krakatoa eruption yesterday [laughs] you know?

[laughs] Yeah, a piece of the Earth just blew into space.

Nothing about that.